Nola’s Press Launch
“How did you meet Dan Aykroyd?” has been the recurring question this week. I suppose just posting a photo of myself with the A-lister, cult figure and real life Ghostbuster was a little vague…So I’ll...
View ArticleA Wednesday in Westminster
This time last week, I was preparing for my first trip to Parliament, well to Portcullis House. I accompanied my boss, Peter Oborne – me name dropping? never – to the Hansard Society’s 10th annual...
View ArticleNow is Good
Occasionally when perambulating through the aisles of supermarkets, I am unwittingly drawn into the DVD section. Before I know it, I’ve got a handful of exciting new films and have completely forgotten...
View ArticleMegan’s
Considering its length, it’s no wonder that people spend so much time talking about the King’s Road. There’s a lot to talk about. On Wednesday night, nestled on a number 22 bus, my mother, sisters and...
View ArticleBar Launch: The Toy Shop
“Putney, one of the pleasantest of the London suburbs, as well as the most accessible” wrote J. C. Geikie in his 1903 The Fascinations of London. If I’d have been heading to ‘the pleasantest of the...
View ArticleBone Daddies
Throw me a bone fellow bloggers…don’t rant and rave in superlatives about restaurants when there is absolutely no way that they are, or ever could be, ‘the best’. Don’t allure me with edited snaps,...
View ArticleThe Chicken or the Egg complex
Sometimes in life we have to adjust our priorities and give up the old for the new. But sometimes it’s not quite that clear-cut: what if the new was conceived as a plan before the old, wouldn’t the new...
View ArticleBurger & Lobster
On February 1st 1996, an episode of Friends aired on NBC entitled The One with the Prom Video. Please find synopsis (courtesy of Wikipedia) below: After getting his big break with Days of Our Lives,...
View ArticleFlat Iron
Sense of direction has never been my forte, but getting lost, well that I can do. Put me in a car and remove the Sat Nav, I’m a gonner. Once it took me three hours to get from Hertfordshire to...
View ArticlePigs’ trotters, calves’ brains and tripe – sounds offal doesn’t it?
Okay, so it’s still not going to be a long one, or indeed a fresh one. But, for those of you who haven’t read it on the Telegraph – well this is the link here. I went to review an offal night at the...
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